In Two Minds: A Heuristic Enquiry Into My Experience of Ambivalence

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aut.embargoNoen_NZ
aut.filerelease.date2024-09-24
aut.thirdpc.containsNoen_NZ
dc.contributor.advisorTudor, Keith
dc.contributor.authorLyons, Deborah Lyn
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-24T01:39:11Z
dc.date.available2021-09-24T01:39:11Z
dc.date.copyright2021
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-09-23T23:55:35Z
dc.description.abstractClients presenting for psychotherapy often bring with them an ambivalent attitude towards that which is troubling them and for which they seek help to change. Psychotherapists are familiar with the concept of coming to know the individual characteristics of their clients in order to proceed with therapy. This study aims to discover the idiosyncratic nature of a personal experience of ambivalence to contribute to the literature that describes this phenomenon. In particular it re-investigates psychoanalytic ideas as a challenge to contemporary notions of the need to get rid of something that perhaps may be of value. In this context ambivalence is defined as mixed feelings towards an object. To discover the nature of a subjective experience of ambivalence, a heuristic self-search inquiry method is utilised. Findings highlight the particular features of this subject’s experience which included fear, protection, relationship, envy, destructive tendencies, guilt, grief, faith and hope as well as the transformational nature of the process of discovery. These results suggest that clients are more likely to be able to change what troubles them if the specific subjective nature of their experience is uncovered. On this basis the phenomenon of ambivalence can be viewed both as constricting and as increasing our capacity to come into beingen_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/14532
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectAmbivalenceen_NZ
dc.subjectPsychotherapyen_NZ
dc.subjectChangeen_NZ
dc.subjectMixed feelingsen_NZ
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen_NZ
dc.subjectHeuristic researchen_NZ
dc.subjectSubjective experienceen_NZ
dc.subjectImpasseen_NZ
dc.subjectIndecisionen_NZ
dc.subjectTherapyen_NZ
dc.subjectUncertaintyen_NZ
dc.subjectDoubten_NZ
dc.subjectTherap* outcomesen_NZ
dc.titleIn Two Minds: A Heuristic Enquiry Into My Experience of Ambivalenceen_NZ
dc.typeDissertationen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Dissertations
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Psychotherapyen_NZ
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